Regenerative AgRobotics is about the application of robotics to the practice of regenerative agriculture, with the goal of making its holistic practices more easily scalable.

Wednesday, August 03, 2016

Assessing the Present Moment

I've long contended that, with the partial exception of Facebook, my online presences aren't about me. They're about something of interest to me, and inevitably filtered through my perspective and constrained by the amount of time I have to give to each, but they're not actually about me. I'm personally not that interesting, I'm just fiendishly drawn to topics that are.

Nevertheless, life sometimes impinges.

In Robotics for Gardeners and Farmers, Part 6, I said "I think it is time to bring this series to a close and begin a new one which attempts to bring these two audiences together...", implying, without saying so directly, that this new series would follow almost immediately.

What did occur to me almost immediately after posting the above is that the effort to bring roboticists together with gardeners and farmers — particularly those engaged in organic/biological/ecological/regenerative approaches — has been the primary mission of this blog from its outset, ten years ago, so a series for this purpose would seem somewhat redundant. Also, the effort to produce the twelve posts outlined in Robotics for Gardening and Farming: A Guide to Two Recent Series exhausted me more than I appreciated at the time. I need a break.

Happily, the dramatic success of the pre-order campaign for FarmBot Genesis came along just in time to take up my slack. So far as I'm concerned, the ball is in their court for the moment.

I expect to return to posting here at a more sedate pace, and to give more of my time to other interests.

In the meantime, I will continue to be on the lookout for anything I can simply link to that contributes to building a bridge between robotics and its application to making the best practices of __*__ scalable. *(Filling in that blank is a bit tricky. There are quite a few overlapping communities of practice, and I don't wish to exclude any of them.)

If what you see here leaves you wanting more, I post more frequently to my Scoop.it topic, and more frequently yet to my
Twitter account, both of which have a similar central focus.

About Me

I began life in Nebraska and Kansas, moved to Colorado shortly before my twentieth birthday, and have lived here, mainly in Boulder, for most of my adult life. I have long-standing interests in the martial arts (born of feeling physically vulnerable), ‘appropriate technology’, computing, and robotics, having come to this by way of the potential for robotics to radically transform agricultural practice for the better. More recently I've developed an interest in musical scales built from integer ratios of frequencies (Just Intonation), enough so that it drove me to learn to program for iOS, culminating in an iPad app in 2010 (now removed from the App Store). Building upon that initial skill-set consumes much of my spare time, and I've become interested in applying it to other things, including robotics.